First notebook entry: Introducing myself

I am learning English, because I want to work in Canada.
My native language is Filipino (Tagalog), and I grew up in the Philippines.
I enjoy surfing internet, playing video game, reading novel book, and watching movie.

 

Magandang araw!

The Internet has become an entity of itself and as such should be capitilized and in this sentence you should include "the" in front of it.

 

The statements concerning games, novels and movies should be pluralized with an "s" unless you are referring to one in pariticular, in this case you would call them by their title. The novel book, well the fact that a novel is a book is assumed since you said you were reading it so just "novels" is proper.

 

So the sentence would be best written like this; "I enjoy surfing the Internet, playing video games, reading novels and watching movies. Alternatively if you wish, you could say "a video game" "a novel" "a movie" instead.

Get Back (get even, settle, winback) 1. Recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost "We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company"; "He got back his son from the kidnappers" 2. Take revenge or even out a score "I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get back" 3. Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury "I finally got back with my old enemy" Go Back (recover, recuperate, recur) 1. Belong to an earlier time "This story goes back 200 years" 2. Return in thought or speech to something 3. Regain a former condition after a financial loss "We expect the stocks to go back to $2.90" Come Back (counter, recall, rejoin, repay, replication, retort, return, riposte) 1. Be restored "Her old vigor came back" 2. Go back to something earlier "This comes back to a previous remark of his" 3. Even the score, in sports 4. Respond in a quick, clever or humorous way AS A NOUN: Comeback 1. A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) "it brought a sharp comeback from the teacher" 2. Return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity

Personally I prefer "we had" and "they played" since it keeps the sentence shorter, In your example I might employ "used to" in one sentence and "had" in the other for diversity... These considerations I believe help keep the reader interested.

For some people this suggests that a mere walk in the park or 2 weeks vacation at the see is all they wish to enjoy of the country. They are acknowledging there are others "the rest" or the remaining of society that might enjoy these beauties more often...

If a student was not showing brilliance you might say, "I would thank you for being a brilliant student" and in this sense you are asking the student for their brilliance so you can commend them. However, if the student is displaying brilliance you would say "Thank you for being a brilliant student"

To watch is to look attentively. To see is much more general in the sense that we perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight... In a conversation about a movie, play, sporting event etc... Either statement is correct. The one you personally like will fit your personal expression the best.

"Resting back" in a sense is the state of relaxing. "Laid back" is more common to me. The "the hip-high water lapping" might be water as deep as to reach you hip's (or waist perhaps a meter or so in depth) and lapping is seen as the gentle rolling of a wave upon the water. The entire description suggests a time of calm or peace in the water.